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Durante casi cinco siglos las hordas mahometanas atacaron a las naciones cristianas de la cuenca del Mediterráneo, saqueando ciudades, hundiendo navios y raptando jóvenes. Tan sólo Venecia y los Caballeros de la Orden de Malta enfrentaron con ímpetu constante la presión ejercida por los secuaces...

Han pasado varios años desde los acontecimientos narrados en «El Corsario Negro» y «La Reina de los Caribes». Ahora Henry Morgan, lugarteniente del Corsario Negro, se ha convertido en el capitán de «El Rayo» y sigue surcando los mares de las Antillas atacando barcos españoles gracias a la...

Estamos en el Turquestán del siglo XIX (si, ahí de donde viene Borat). El “beg” Giah Agha , poderoso jefe de tribu turcomana, está preparando el casamiento de su nieto preferido, el valiente y leal Hossein, con la bella Talmá, princesa de la tribu amiga de los sartos. Pero la ceremonia termina...

Mariquita, también conocida como La estrella de Araucania, es una joven de enorme belleza a la que pretenden dos jóvenes primos, Piotre y Alonzo. Finalmente el elegido para convertirse en su esposo es el joven Alonzo, sin embargo el destino quiere que en la última travesía el barco de Alonzo naufrague...

Doctor Dolittle’s Circus is the fourth of Hugh Lofting’s Doctor Dolittle series. In Doctor Dolittle’s Circus the doctor needs money to pay off a voyage to Africa, so he joins a circus with the pushmi-pullyu as his attraction. He enlightens a circus owner who cares little for animals, fights...

The year is 1793, the darkest days of the French revolution, and little Charles-Léon is ill. The delicate son of Louise and Bastien de Croissy is recommended country air, but travel permits are needed — and impossible to come by. Louise’s friend, Josette, believes she knows a way out. For Josette...

Angel Esquire : Le vieux Réale, patron de plusieurs casinos égyptiens, s’est retiré à Londres, sa fortune faite. Il a fait construire dans sa maison un gigantesque coffre-fort. William Spedding, son avoué, a recueilli son testament sur lequel figurent ses anciens complices, Jimmy, Connor et...

Big-Foot : Pauvre Gordon Cardew ! Veuf, ancien notaire, il devrait profiter d’une retraite méritée ! Sa nouvelle passion, la criminologie, l’amène à fréquenter de brillants policiers comme Minter, dit Super, ou Lattimer, son adjoint. Sa secrétaire, Elfa Leigh, le seconde avec efficacité....

Jules Gartrey, a prominent banker, is killed in his apartment and the police have Al Yohe in their sights. Crime writer and occasional detective Amos Lee Mappin finds himself corralled into investigating by his staff and Yohe’s young bride. Mappin soon finds that this there are plenty of suspects, but Yohe is still at the top of the list...

“All we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.” ~Edgar Allan Poe Not all dreams are magical things filled with hope and light, some dreams are murkier and far more sinister. From the shared dreams of her famous sons John Waters and Edgar Allen Poe, Baltimore is known for her share of...

Henri Barbusse, l’auteur du Feu, Henri Barbusse qui a lancé à la face du belliciste Tardieu son « J’accuse! ». Henri Barbusse un des hommes qui est à l’origine du mouvement mondial contre la guerre impérialiste et le fascisme, dont le Congrès d’Amsterdam en 1932 a constitué le point de départ.

She was eighteen years old and would graduate in a few weeks, yet Elsie looked like a child, lying there in that little white bed, with her golden curls scattered on the pillow and the soft whiteness of her neck and hands shaded by the delicate Valenciennes with which her night robe was profusely...

The League is up to their old tricks again, but this time they have the help of a local simple girl from the country, Fleurette. When she and her love fall into danger for her help, the League decides these two innocents must be rescued as well. But matters are complicated when the Pimpernel discovers...

As soon as Anne Shirley arrives at the snug white farmhouse called Green Gables, she is sure she wants to stay forever… but will the Cuthberts send her back to to the orphanage? Anne knows she’s not what they expected—a skinny girl with fiery red hair and a temper to match. If only she can convince...